2.6.37-6.15 seems buggered

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Mon Nov 22 11:09:10 UTC 2010


On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 09:00:09AM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 09:39:03AM -0700, Tim Gardner wrote:
> > I'm having crashes on boot with my Nvidia based Dell XPSM1710 (using 
> > Noveau). We should probably get the archive admins to hold off on NEWing 
> > the binaries.
> > 
> > The first indication of something wrong is a stack trace from 
> > kernel/trace/ftrace.c:1014
> > 
> > I also crashes on one of my ATI Radeon based servers, but I can't tell 
> > if its at the same place.
> 
> I am getting indications it may be triggering vile panics in modules
> as well.  I am suspicious this is the module NXRO patches in my case.
> Anynow am investigating.

Yeah in testing here it seems to be the module NXRO patches which are
blowing things up.  It looks superficially that we are going read-only
before all linking is complete.  I'll get with you to test the updated
kernels with your two broken boxed, but reverting that patch cirtainly
fixes all of the machines I have tested here.

-apw




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